Jeffrey Greene‘s fourth collection of poems, Beautiful Monsters (Pecan Grove Press), appeared in 2010, and his most recent nature book, The Golden-Bristled Boar: Last Ferocious Beast of the Forest (University of Virginia Press and Robert Hale, Ltd UK) was released in spring of 2011.
Fall 2011
A Sestina for a Cannibal
How do you teach a cannibal to speak when he has no tongue? Draw a picture first—a house or a ship— and then guide his fingers to form the letters and slowly pronounce the word.